The public television network PBS is taking some of its viewers’ favorite programs and making them available via its newly-launched video portal, PBS.org/video.  Today’s debut of the streaming site marks the first time that programming from a variety of series producers has been available in from one location. The new video site features a broad [...]

Zune Insider says that programming from “educational” TV network PBS is available starting today from the Zune Video Marketplace.  Shows available for download include public television viewer favorites: Ken Burns’ Jazz, America and American Lives; NOVA, Wired Science, Scientific American Frontiers and, later this week, Carrier. For even more intellectually enriching Zune content (edutainment?), the [...]

YouTube has partnered with PBS to ask Americans to share their Election Day voting experiences on a new YouTube video channel, Video Your Vote. The initiative hopes to educate voters on the entire process and a wide array of issues associated with voting in America, while enabling the world to watch pivotal moments in this [...]

PBS has announced that it will launch a broad selection of full-length PBS television shows for download on Xbox LIVE, the online games and entertainment network for the Xbox 360. Included on Xbox LIVE are: WIRED SCIENCE CARRIER SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS NOVA Ken Burns’ Jazz Ken Burns’ America Ken Burns’ American Lives “Our commitment is [...]

Reddit today announced that it was working with PBS to create a new weekly television news program, Your Week, that’s “powered by you.” Material for the show will come from hot stories on the reddit front page every week. Meta discussions about that content and the show itself will all take place at yourweek.reddit.com: Whereas [...]

Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods – PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U: From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with [...]

Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com. Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds. To [...]

Some forty years after it first revolutionized children’s television programming, Sesame Workshop (the makers of public tv’s Sesame Street) has announced the launch of a video podcast series. The short weekly episodes focus on a single “word on the street” (literally, a word chalked onto blacktop). The recent podcast about squid featured grown-ups and children [...]

Respected interviewer and journalist Charlier Rose, best known for his Charlie Rose Show on PBS, has introduced a new video portal that’s a great example of a corporate video destination. The site, now in beta, has great content, is well organized, has news feeds, tagged content, comments, well-implemented search and integrated ecommerce. You can explore [...]

PBS has introduced a new podcast, the Take One Step podcast, as part of a new health campaign launched to raise awareness of heart disease. The campaign features a wide variety of resources to help inform people about the number one killer in the US. To accompany the premiere of The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease [...]